LXX 13:3). None is exempt: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). In all this, we show ourselves to be the children of our first parents, who turned away from God and set humanity’s feet on the path of disobedience. A respected desert father expressed this pithily when he said, “All of us look like Adam.”58 In all these effects of sin, we find, indeed, that all humankind is “in Adam.” But how does our being “in Adam” work its way out in us? How are we
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